From Beijing to London
The Olympic flag has now passed from Beijing which hosted this year’s Games to London which will be the host in 2012 and today there have been a number of events to mark the occasion. One was 4.45 pm fly past over Buckingham Palace by the Royal Air Force’s Red Arrows display team – always an exhilarating sight – and I just managed to catch a view of them as they wheeled north.
The last Olympic Games in London were held in the year of my birth. When they return to London in 2012, I will be 64. I feel a Beatles song coming on …